☆Let us create the future with hope☆世界の人口増大に伴って、世界的な大きな課題となってきた食料問題の解決方策及び国際的な雇用創出の増大を目的として、大規模な浮体式洋上構造物上において、世界中の市民の参加による共同組織体制を創生し、地球の約７０％の表面積の海洋を有効に利用して、自然再生循環系（sustainable)の新しい産業・経済体系を創生させるプロジェクト構想を公海の海上に構築する。
例えば、国際的な教育施設も洋上構築物に併設し、洋上での大規模な農林産物・牧畜・水産物の栽培や洋上太陽光発電や洋上風力発電等のプロジェクト等を構築・発展させる。
青年達の夢と希望を世界な規模に拡げながら、国際的な協力で、希望のある未来のために、平和で、紛争のない、安寧な世界を創って行きましょう。

The Energy Island, a joint venture lead by Dominic Michaelis, draws on the broad range of research activities being conducted across the University of Southampton in a number of specialist research groups. A virtual team, collaborating with industry and academics internationally is working towards the goal of a floating energy island capable of delivering gigawatt levels of energy from renewable sources. The modular structure of the Energy Island permits scaling and adaptation to suit a variety of different locations, climates and demands while facilitating economic feasibility through shared infrastructure, volume production and low operating costs. The flexibility of siting offered by a floating platform also offers a critical advantage to the more densely populated countries such as the United Kingdom where obtaining environmentally and socially acceptable locations for the siting of large renewable energy capture installations is a major hurdle for any new development.

Be Veg. Go Green. Save the Planet. for more details, （吃素、環保、救地球）Please visit http://www.SupremeMasterTV.com Tidal Energy Limited, based in Cardiff, UK will test its 1 megawatt DeltaStream tidal turbine near the coast of Wales. It applies innovations used from propulsion system of ship with wind turbines....etc.英國加地大的潮汐能源公司將在威爾斯沿海附近測試一 百萬瓦的三角潮汐滑輪機，它採用船舶推進系統和風電機的革新技術等等。

NASA's been tracking the thinning of the ozone layer the south pole for nearly 20 years. In this slowed-down animation, you can watch the ozone hole's average size each October.
For more information, check out NASA's ozone hole monitoring site: http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Or read Wired.com's story about the city most affected by the problem:http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/10/dayintech_1009

Wired Science visits The Rainforests of the World exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences, where a vibrant snapshot of life from across the globe is on display in a greenhouse dome.
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The dam could provide electricity to 23 million homes but critics say that the flooding of 500sq km of rainforest will force the displacement of indigenous peoples such as the Xinguano, above

Hannah Strange

Brazil has approved the controversial construction of a giant hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon, defying a 20-year protest by indigenous and environmental campaigners who say that the project will devastate the surrounding rainforest and threaten the survival of local tribes.

The Belo Monte project on the Xingu river, an Amazon tributary, was started in the 1990s but abandoned amid widespread protests at home and abroad. The rock star Sting led a campaign against the plan with tribal leaders, and revisited Brazil in November last year to urge the Government to consider the impact of deforestation on greenhouse gas levels and global warming.

The $17billion (£11billion) dam in the northern state of Pará will be the world’s third-largest and could provide electricity to 23million homes, a supply that the Government says is vital to the country’s economic growth. Critics argue that the flooding of 500 sq km of rainforest will damage fish stocks and wildlife and force the displacement of indigenous peoples.

Carlos Minc, the Environment Minister, said on Monday that the land flooded would be a fraction of the 5,000 sq km originally planned. “The environmental impact exists but it has been weighed up, calculated and reduced,” he said. “Not one Indian on indigenous land will be displaced.”

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However, groups on land not demarcated as tribal territory — a distinction often labelled a get-out clause by indigenous campaigners — still stand to lose their homes. Mr Minc said that they would be compensated. Indigenous groups complain that they were not properly consulted over the project, which Megaron Tuxucumarrae, a chief of the Kayapo tribe, said would destroy the environment that his people had taken care of for millennia. “We are opposed to dams on the Xingu, and will fight to protect our river,” he said.

The state-run company Eletrobrás is said to be eyeing the project, but a contract has not yet been awarded. The winning company will have to spend $803million on measures to minimise its impact and resettle an estimated 12,000 people.

Critics said that the Government had underestimated the potential impact in its attempt to meet political ends in an election year. Even within the Government, the project has been so contentious that in November two senior officials from Ibama, Brazil’s environmental agency, resigned, citing political pressure.

With general elections looming in October, the Government is under pressure to deal with energy infrastructure problems that resulted in large swathes of the country, including São Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, being plunged into darkness in November.

Engineering experts have questioned the efficiency of the 11-gigawatt dam, which would be outstripped in size only by China’s Three Gorges and Itaipu on the Brazil-Paraguay border.

Francisco Hernández, an electrical engineer and joint co-ordinator of a group of 40 specialists who analysed the project, said that the dam would generate little electricity during the three to four-month dry season. Describing it as a scheme of “doubtful engineering viability”, he said Belo Monte was an extremely complex project “that would interrupt the flow of water courses over an enormous area, requiring excavation of earth and rocks on the scale of that carried out for digging the Panama Canal”.

Up to 70 dams, roads, gas pipelines and power grids worth more than $30billion are to be built to tap the region’s raw materials and transport agricultural products.

The announcement drew a furious reaction from environmental groups around the world. Aviva Imhof, the campaigns director of International Rivers, described it as a “foolish investment”, and said that by investing in energy efficiency, Brazil could cut demand by 40 per cent over the nextdecade and save $19billion. “The amount of energy saved would be equivalent to 14 Belo Monte dams,” she said.

Fiona Watson, research director of the UK-based Survival International, said the dam would be a catastrophe for indigenous people. “The Brazilian Government has driven through the dam with a cavalier disregard to indigenous peoples’ rights,” she said. “Development in Brazil comes at an unacceptable price — the destruction of whole tribes.”

02/02/2010

Old rotten fish

Scientists put up with all sorts of discomfort for the sake of curiosity. At a mosquito lab at Queen Mary University London, some of the mosquitoes have to be fed on fresh blood (the malaria researchers' blood). Neuroscientists at the lab I used to work at were constantly taking part in each others pain, drug or gas experiments. But, a study that came out yesterday in Nature, involving the gradual decomposition of fish has got to have been one of the worst.

In order to work out how different tissue structures in ancient fish would have changed during decomposition (and before fossilisation) the team observed the gradual rotting of lamprey fishduring a period of six months.

"When we set-up the experiments we had difficulty finding an out of the way room where any smells would be less potentially disruptive to the rest of the building," says Mark Purnell, who led the research. "Shortly after we started the work a nearby lecture theatre had to be evacuated because of unbearably bad smells thankfully it turned out to have nothing to do with us."

Thankfully too, the grim experiment has thrown up some interesting results. The study suggests that neglecting the effect of decay prior to fossilisation may have lead many fossils to be misinterpreted. Previously, a common assumption among palaeontologists was that as specimens decayed, they lost defining characteristics in a fairly random order. Purnell and his team found that in the case of fish, they tended to lose their most recently evolved characteristics first.

Effectively, as fish decay they are shunted back down the tree of life into an earlier phase of the species' evolution. "As they decayed the more primitive characteristics became more prominent," says Purnell.

The finding is particularly relevant to the interpretation of chordates — fish that lived about half a billion years ago, and featured a characteristic rod-like support structure, which was a precursor to the backbone. With no bone structures to rely on, palaeontologists are dependent on tissue which is vulnerable to decay. The latest study places new stricter boundaries on the extent to which these fossils can be interpreted. A fossil may look primitive, but researchers will now have to also consider the possibility that the fish was just very, very rotten.

Let's create hopeful future. Let's create the harmonic, peaceful, sustainable and modern social structures in the global world. Let's create those Harmonic Worlds such as Heavens or Paradises were made by the gods and many ancestors. It will be able to make those world. I think it is possible to make up them. Let's create those New Global World like Paradises of the Super Floating Structures such as the Noah's Ark with people having the good will in the international cooperation at the ocean's surfaces．

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【Let's Create Future with Hope】Let's make Sustainable world with hope for future. Let's make “Offshore Structure such as Noah's Ark”. Anti-nuclear power 世界の人口増大にともなって、生まれてくる食料問題が世界的な大きな課題となってきた。中国やインド、アジア・アフリカ諸国等の人口増大に伴って、食料資源や産業用の鉱物資源の争奪・獲得競争の激化による国際紛争の多発が予想ではなくなり、現実に、我々の生活に、影響を与え始めてきている。

Matt R. Simmons to Address GMREC III during Thursday, April 15th Luncheon
March 12, 2010 by TMarieHilton
Filed under Announcements, Blog,
OREC Newsroom Matthew R. Simmons is Chairman Emeritus of Simmons &
Company International, a specialized energy investment banking firm.
The firm has completed approximately 770 investment banking projects for its
worldwide energy clients at a combined dollar value in excess of $140 billion.
Mr. Simmons was raised in Kaysville, Utah. He graduated cum laude from the
University of Utah and received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business
School.
He served on the faculty of Harvard Business School as a Research Associate
for two years and was a Doctoral Candidate.
Mr. Simmons began a small investment bank/advisory firm in Boston.
Among his early clients were several subsea service companies. By 1973,
almost all of his clients were oil service companies.
Following the 1973 Oil Shock, Simmons decided to create a Houston-based firm
to concentrate on providing highest quality investment banking advice to the
worldwide oil service industry. Over time, the specialization expanded into
investment banking covering all aspects of the global energy industry.
SCI’s offices are located in Houston, Texas; London, England; Boston,
Massachusetts; Aberdeen, Scotland and Dubai, UAE. In 2007, Mr. Simmons founded
The Ocean Energy Institute in Mid-Coast Maine.
The Institute’s focus is to research and create renewable energy sources from
all aspects of our oceans.
Simmons serves on the Board of Directors of Houston
Technology Center (Houston) and the Center for Houston’s Future (Houston).
He also serves on The University of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Foundation Board of Visitors (Houston) and is a Trustee of the Bermuda Institute
for Ocean Sciences.
In addition, he is past Chairman of the National Ocean
Industry Association.
Mr. Simmons is a past President of the Harvard Business School Alumni
Association and a former member of the Visiting Committee of Harvard Business
School.
He is a member of the National Petroleum Council, Council on Foreign
Relations and The Atlantic Council of the United States.
Mr. Simmons is a
Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Island Institute
and Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine.
Mr. Simmons’ recently published book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming
Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy has been listed on the Wall Street
Journal’s best-seller list.
He has also published numerous energy papers for
industry journals and is a frequent speaker at government forums, energy
symposiums and in boardrooms of many leading energy companies around the world.

Mr. Simmons is married and has five daughters. His hobbies include watercolors,
cooking, writing and travel.

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Prisident Obama 氏の支援グループへの私のメール

President Obama 氏の支援グループへの私のメール

How do you do.

My name is yuuji matuoka , as a civil ocean engineer in japan , age 61.
I want to show my presentation about the ocean development aiming at making the peaceful world to the President of Obama USA. ( : My this presentation is always my lifework. )

How do you come to be able to do it from poor life in rich life?

How to
change to be able to do it from the poor people to the plentful people?

The Ocean Development was presented by J.F.Kennedy before about 40 years
ago.

Here are many objects on the subjects in these difficult big projects, but I believe it will be possible and succeed.

Those many projects will be able to make up many jobs for worldwide people.

The best leader will be present both The hope and The Dream for many
people believing the leader.

Please show to USA President Obama my presentation.

I hope USA President Mr.Obama will succeed as Best excellent top leader in the world at
21century.

Ocean Wave Energy

Ocean Wave Energy

Google — 2007年07月23日 — Google Tech Talks
November 8, 2006

ABSTRACT
The World Energy Council has estimated the 'useful' global ocean wave energy resource as 2TW (17,500TWh/year). From this it has been estimated (Thorpe 1999) that the practical economic contribution from wave energy converters could be 2,000TWh/year (similar to current installed nuclear or hydroelectric generation capacity). Such generating capacity could result in up to 2 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions being displaced from fossil fuel generation per year - similar to current emissions from electricity generation in the US.

Formed in 1998, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Ocean Power Delivery Ltd has developed the 'Pelamis' wave energy converter...

10 Hours of Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (Water Prelude - Kevin MacLeod)

Oceania iWhales : Whale Song

Playing With Beluga Babies! So cute!

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Playing with beluga babies (Eve, Sasha, Mira, Charlotte and Neva) at Marineland. There are also a few mother belugas that came over as well (Xena and Kelowna). You can see the newest baby Qila and her mother Isis swim by.

Name the Baby Beluga at the Vancouver Aquarium

November 09, 2009 Beautiful footage of the Vancouver Aquarium's baby beluga, which was born earlier this summer. Additionally, the Vancouver Aquarium is asking Canadians to help them pick a name for the little girl. Submit your suggestions here!

Name the Baby Beluga at the Vancouver Aquarium

This summer I had the chance to visit the Vancouver Aquarium for the first time in about a decade. What I discovered was that it was far from simply being a tourist attraction and an entertainment destination. It’s a valuable research facility, a way to teach children about sustainability and its impact on animals and the environment, and the staff are some of the nicest people you’ll meet.

In a news release this morning, the Vancouver Aquarium announced a contest to name the newest addition to their family, Qila’s baby beluga calf.

Starting today (Monday, September 29), Canadians are invited to visit the Vancouver Aquarium website at www.vanaqua.org to submit a name suggestion.
Submissions will be accepted up to 11:59 p.m. Friday, October 10, 2008. Our panel of judges will select five â€œfinalistâ€ names, and Vancouver Aquarium Members will vote on their favourite. The winning name will be published in the Vancouver Sun and announced live on Global Televisionâ€™s morning news Friday, October 24, 2008.
Five prizes each consisting of an annual Vancouver Aquarium family membership will be randomly awarded from all contest entries. The membership provides admission to the Vancouver Aquarium for one year for two adults and three children (ages 4-18)

The Grand Prize winner will receive a â€œone of a kindâ€ Beluga Encounter with the baby, Qila and Aurora hosted by our veterinarian and our Marine Mammal Curator. Plus, the grand prize also includes an annual Vancouver Aquarium family membership and a $150.00 (CAD) gift certificate from the Gift Shop at the Aquarium.

You can watch the baby on the Aquarium’s Beluga Cam for some inspiration or visit the Vancouver Aquarium for a closer look.